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Apple Mac OS X 10.7 DP2 Battles Ubuntu 10.10

04-18-2011, 04:10 AM

Phoronix: Apple Mac OS X 10.7 DP2 Battles Ubuntu 10.10

Upon the release of the first Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" Developer Preview, we had delivered early benchmarks of this Apple operating system slated for release this summer. Since then, there has been the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Developer Preview 2 (DP2) so we have carried out an updated set of Mac OS X 10.7 performance benchmarks. This also includes a comparative look at the Mac OS X Lion performance against Ubuntu Linux 10.10.

The article clearly states that the Ubuntu results are provided for reference. Using a stable, released OS as a reference seems perfectly reasonable. Besides, if the goal were to compared cutting edge releases, even the OS X results are behind since Snow Leopard is at 10.6.7 not 10.6.6 and the latest Lion build is 11A430e not 11A419.

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Funny, as when I publish OS benchmarks that use the upstream packaged compiler for each OS, people complain loudly as well that it's then an inaccurate comparison.

Well, you basically had two choices here, either choose the same compiler version or use default stock compiler. With the first choice people complain as it in fact is unrealistic scenario and with the second choice people would complain that it is unfair comparing different versions etc. I'd say stick to your "default" motto and show a finger to people telling you otherwise...